Documents expand pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could get lost.
The Navigator sidebar. You can show/hide it on the left side of the Edit window with ⌘ Command + 1
To add a title page to your document, click the Plus button at the top of the Navigator, select Tools > Title Page... from the menu bar, or use the ⌘ T shortcut.
You can add pages to the front of your document by clicking the Plus button at the top of the Navigator, or selecting Tools > Additional Pages from the menu bar.
Types of additional pages include:
The majority of the Navigator shows the outline of your document.
The Navigator Items toggle menu.
Using the pull down menu in the top left corner, you can toggle if you want to see:
There are no separate views for crafting an outline in Highland Pro. You write your outline in the Editor and can add your writing before, after, or interspersed with any outlining you do.
Outlining elements are set to hide from your formatted document as a default, but you can toggle them on and off in Preview.
To create a heading, just put a # mark and a space in front of text.
You can add from 1 to 6 # marks for different sized headings.
In script writing templates, these headings can help you organize sections of your script and will be hidden from the Preview view. In Markdown-based templates, Headings show up in the Preview view and any exported documents.
To add a Synopsis to your script, just type = and a space. Any words in the paragraph that follows will be highlighted as a Synopsis and show up in the Navigator bar, as well as in your Editor view.
When used in combination with Headings and/or Scene Headings, they can create as detailed an outline as you need, summarizing what needs to happen in this part of your story (or in this part of your essay, blog post, etc.)
When writing in a script writing template, your scene headings show up by default in the Navigator.
Notes are created by putting [[double brackets around text]] You can type the brackets yourself, or use ⌘ Command + / ****to insert the brackets and type the note inside.
Notes appear in the text, as well as in the Navigator, just like Synopses. The difference is that you can include Notes within a sentence or paragraph.
These are useful for short notes to remind yourself to return to a section later, placeholders for TBD character names, or comments you want to share with a collaborator looking at your .highland document.